The NYT has reported that Hunter Biden’s company was receiving as much as $50,000 a month for unspecified services. They also noted the fact that Joe Biden threatened to withhold money that was desperately needed to ward off the Russians unless the prosecutor investigating his son was fired.
Talk about obstruction of justice. That doesn’t even address the fact that a couple of days after visiting China with his father, Hunter Biden, with no experience at all, got a multiple billion dollar contract from the Chinese. But, even with all of his baggage, I’d be willing to bet the NYT will endorse him for president, even as they criticize President Trump that didn’t get a dime from the Ukraine or China.
Kenneth Vogel and Iuliia Mendel report at the Times:
It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kiev in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.
The pressure campaign worked. The prosecutor general, long a target of criticism from other Western nations and international lenders, was soon voted out by the Ukrainian Parliament.
Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.
Hunter Biden was a Yale-educated lawyer who had served on the boards of Amtrak and a number of nonprofit organizations and think tanks, but lacked any experience in Ukraine and just months earlier had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine. He would be paid as much as $50,000 per month in some months for his work for the company, Burisma Holdings.